French elites saw antisemitism as the safe majority position against Dreyfus

Evidence

Gallifet, minister of war, wrote to Waldeck: “Let us not forget that the great majority of people in France are antisemitic. Our position would be, therefore, that on the one side we would have the entire army and the majority of Frenchmen, not to speak of the civil service and the senators;…” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2170

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader anti-Dreyfusard establishment calculus that the main text analyzes — antisemitism as political capital rather than conviction.